Software Architecture: First European Conference, ECSA 2007, Madrid, Spain, September 24-26, 2007, Proceedings

Software architecture has emerged as an important subdiscipline of software engineering encompassing a broad set of languages, styles, models, tools, and processes. The role of software architecture in the engineering of software—intensive applications has become more and more important and widespread. Indeed, component—based and service—oriented architectures have become key to the design, development, and evolution of most software systems. The European Conference on Software Architecture...